On (30 Sep 97) Darin McBride wrote to Jerry Coffin...
 DM> You mean that WinNT and Linux don't do their own buffering internally?
 DM>  No read caches?  No write caches?
No, that's not what I mean at all.  If it had been more than marginal
for topicality, I'd have gone into considerably more detail.  However,
while it's (more or less) related to programming in general, there was
little if anything that was directly related to C++, so I tried to keep
it as short as possible.  Chances are I should have been even more
considerate of topicality, and just not sent anything at all.
I started to point out the errors in the rest of your post, but after
some consideration decided against it, as the relationship to C++ was
weak to start with, and rapidly shrinking.  When you do things like
imply that I/O with NTFS is faster than with FAT, you not only strain
the relationship with C++, but indeed with reality.  (I use this as an
example primarily becuase it's quite neutral rather than being a
comparison between one OS and another.)
Suffice to say that if you want to compare the efficiency of various
OSes, you have my email address.
    Later,
    Jerry.
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